Improvement in adjustable harness-pads



J. JOHNSON. Adjustable Harness-Pad.

. N`o. 220,846. Patented Oct. 21, |879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIOE.

JAOOB JOHNSON, or ASHLAND, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOE To T. JAY OHASTAIN, or SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ADJUSTABLE HARNESS-PADS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,846, dated October 21, 1879 application filed March 15, 1879.

- on line ww of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan Otl the metallic plate set within the pad. Fig. 4 is a section of the same through line y y of Fig. 3.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object 'of this invention is to provide a harness-pad which may be adjusted to the back of a horse of any shape or size.

On the back ot' the pad O is the housing D. Within the pad, nea-r each end thereof, are slotted metallic plates a a', preferably of zinc. Within the slots of each ot' these plates are fitted two or more squares of hard leather or other suitable material, b b', that still leave room enough in the slots for the nuts f', into which enter the pad-screws E E, that pass down through the housing D and the skirts F F.

1n order to adjust the pad, which, from the points g g to its ends, is held against the housing and skirts only by the screws E E and their nuts, the screws are withdrawn and the relative positions of one or more of the squares b' b and of the nuts are changed; then the screws are reinserted in their respective nuts and screwed down. Thus, if it be desired to bring theends of the pad closer together, in Order to lit it to asmall horse, the squares are moved down toward the lower ends Of the slots, and the nuts f f are placed in the upper ends thereof. Then, by inserting the screws and turning them down firmly, the ends of the p td are pressed inward toward each other.

To adjust the pad to a larger horse the relative positions of the nuts and squares are reversed, the nuts being set in the eXtreme Outmost ends ot' the slots. I

Within these two extremes there is a suflicent range of adjustment to meet all ordinary requirements. Y

-Even if this method of absolute adjustment be dispensed with, the pad will adjust itself to the backs of horses of dierent sizes more readily than will any other, because the pad proper is detached 4at its ends from the housing, as shown.

rllhe skirts F F may be held to the housing by the screws E E and terrets B B, or may be seWed thereto.

Having thus described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Fatent--v In the construction of a harness-pad, the plates a e', squares b bn', and nuts f j", in combination with the housing D and pad O, substantially as herein shown and described.

JACOB JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH ARNOLD, J. F. RITOHHARE 

